) Flag day collections – Exempted

(3) Flag day collections – Exempted

Under Rule 12 of the Central Civil Service (Conduct) Rules, 1964 no Government servant may except with the previous sanction of the Government or other competent authority, ask for or accept contribution to or otherwise associate himself with the raising of any fund in pursuance of any object whatsoever.

An instance has come to the notice of Government in which the head of an office refused to accept tokens and car flags given to him on Flag Day, for the purpose of raising collections from his office staff for the benefits of ex-service men. The reason given by the official was that the Government Servants Conduct Rules prohibited him from making such collections. The stand taken by the official was no doubt, correct under the rules. But in view of the object under lying the Flag Day Collections, the Government of India have decided to relax the provisions of the above rule for this purpose and to allow Central Government servants to participate in such collections on a voluntary basis.

[MHA, Memo No. 25/33/55-Ests., dated 31st October, 1955]